Government needs to be tech savvy with rural plan

It is laughable in today’s world to imagine a time when mobile devices simply did not exist yet that was just 36 years ago, writes Joe Gill.

I was talking with a colleague this week about the last time we had really cold weather. She remembered 1982 when it was not possible to come to work but she could not contact her boss.

At the time there was no such thing as a mobile phone and she had no phone at home as it took about 12 months on a waiting list to get one.